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: I was at a small breakfast meeting where usaid goes through cases - todays was on what Atlanta-based CARE is facilitating with local Bangladeshi moderators regarding total dairy chain in bangladesh

and BRAC was featured as a major representative of the poorest in this market's value chain; a few weeks earlier a similar system dynamics map explained what freedom of knowhow is needed to end poverty with kenya's milk chains

tons of eye-openers on what makes Bangla Dairy contextually different are being mapped

the difference between seasonal glut and lack of milk - the big processors go from under-capacity to over-capacity - no wonder the poorest get squeezed out of both extreme market swings

collectors who accidentally act as the markets sharks- the small producers have to deal with them and they are too big an anti-social network association for any one of the 4 main dairy companies to argue with first

what this also means is the collectors mix various qualities of milk together but there is now a magic tech gizmo enabling any mobile person to test milk quality - so the milk's freedom game is how to renegotiate with collectors so poorest are sustainble and quality milk is enjoyed by all

also occasionally international companies have gluts of powdered milk which they dump on richer bangla citizens- again destroying markets prices- a perfect recipe for corruption in government (mis-)regulation of such

-------------------------------------------Cross-over maps - the french government and danone have been using analysis of milk value chains to demand total revaluation of all basic foodsmarkets - see cannnes B20 subsummit of G20 november 2011 and www.danonecommunities.com where 100000 French youth celebrate the good news of goodwill economics and the job creating futures it leads to

Danone connected extraordinary goodwill when it asked chinese infant nutritionalists to extend the world's most valuable yogurt designed round missing infant nutrition - the chinese said why not fortify grains as a far easier market to distribute- so the most valuable co-creatyed market between the 3 countries of china, france and bangaldesh is opening up - search out how swiss based Gain and a bit of Yunus wizardry helped stir this goodwill world trade

also this note from an announcemkent at recent skoll summit appeared inbox today

The 450 million smallholder farmers around the world, who comprise the majority of those living in absolute poverty, have an enormous unmet financing need. Such financing requirements include small loans for inputs like seeds and fertilizer. A few weeks ago, seven leading social lenders, who collectively disbursed $360 million in 2013 toward agriculture financing, joined forces to spur sustainable growth and instill responsible practices in this vital lending area: they formed the Council on Smallholder Agricultural Finance.

Launched at the Skoll World Forum in Oxford, the Council is made up of Alterfin, Oikocredit, Rabobank’s Rabo Rural Fund, responsAbility Investments AG, Root Capital, the Shared Interest Society, and Triodos Investment Management. The Council will meet regularly, share experiences and insights, and develop best practices and industry standards across three areas: market growth; responsible lending principles; social and environmental impact.

The Council particularly targets loans to “missing middle” agricultural businesses in low- and middle-income countries. The “missing middle” refers to businesses that require financing in the $25,000 to $2 million range, which are amounts often deemed too large for microfinance and too low for commercial banks. These businesses include producer organizations, companies that source from smallholder farmers, and companies that provide productive assets to smallholder farmers, often on credit. These companies can serve hundreds to thousands of farmers, offering an array of services including market access support, training, financial services, and accessible assets. Though millions of smallholder farmers are connected to these missing middle businesses, the vast majority are not.

For those who dont know tebabu is a maryland neighbour - his best friend in ethiopia represents coop of 200000 coffee farmer families. Tebabu is a white house champion for his model that minimises middlemen in food value chains:

lets mobilise maximum livelihoods structures (including total jobs creating education networks) at the farmer end and in us communities who could operate a thriving social cafe - not just a great social experience of a good and responsible cafe but converge all other microproducers needs for a us market channel that flourishes with community regeneration

tebabu (who also convenes diaspora summits http://usadbc.org ) is also the pride and joy of the person at the maryland legislature who introduced bcorps; in other words if tebabu's model doesnt scale what bcorps ever will?; my understanding to check with tebabu is maryland has gone further and introduced a special law so that tebabu's can seek crowd investments to open up a place's blessed cafes franchise

there are 2 things I dont know that I would like to check with tebabu and if appropriate brainstorm with you

1 provided a franchise owner is completely loyal to the blessed coffee concept, can we crowdinvest for a location outside maryland in usa - if we can then this fast forwarding of crowd investing could be interesting to eg Kiva Zip whom anna lu knows well, and may still be interesting to rodolfo - rodolfo is now in venture capital in san francisco but he spent his last year at MIT leading an mit100k team doing worldwide research on what would be the best crowdinvesting concepts to bank if the jobs act fast tracked (sadly it didnt); I dont know if there is any part of obamas team that would want maryland and all of above to fast proof crowdinvesting; incidentally the social competition of mit100k (the origin of all student entrepreneur comoetitions and a maoin reason why mit is the number 1 job creating alumni network in the world) is annually sponsored by the segal family ( a foundation for bootom up african development)

The mission of the Segal Family Foundation is to partner with outstanding organizations that improve the well-being of communities in Sub Saharan Africa.

One of the interesting things about Segal which I know becasue of its projects in Mali is that it enjoys developing relationships with African embassies in DC which want to maximise student involvement with development. Naila also has one of the best contacts for te future of Mali with the Toure family whose elafdr is retiring from head of ITU in Geneva early next year and who can therefore be expected to get back to open tech projects across africa particularly mali or womens networked ones which all the ladies in his family are famous for

2 i dont know how many livelihoods a cafe and its additional wholeale territory sustains directly; as wel as how many jobs start to develop around all the partnering blessed value chains; of course this could also leverage how pivotally linked in to all microfinances in a region where loanees need a market

tebabu can you indicate whether there is anything to brainstorm here - or just tell everyne I misunderstood

if there is something to brainstorm then I gave you the coffee format specification of the biggest responsible cafe producer out of columbia and the fact that your friend is visiting you over xmas and before that anna and naila are consulting relevant parties in san frnacisco on 19 december makes all of above timely

http://www.brewingchange.us/…/age-old-ethiopian-spices-off…/ spicing up feed the future models all round washington DC and wherever African diasporahttp://usadbc.org can reach http://myeconomics.ning.com/forum/topics/food tell me chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk if you have a world changing win-win to lolinkin -far right stefanos is changing food security of spices value chain, linking youth technology hubs across africa, searching for what could be grameen intel's http://grameenintel.com first major eagri entry into africa in line with its triple partnership announce un week with ifad and usaid to help small rice farmers in cambodia triple exports; far left tebabu's family connects livelihoods of 200000 coffee coop farmers in ethiopia, is white house champion for disaspora networking out of DC and close friend of the ethiopian who runs the 5 billion person elearning satellite channel http://www.yazmi.com - general question how can diaspora networks to end poverty partner optimally with such gov networks as www.feedthefuture.gov

Last week I met the Ethiopian owner of the elearning satellite yazmi which reaches 5 billion people (his head office offering 20 years of development of this facility is in silver spring maryland.)

Friends of health millennials networks and partners, and I are particularly keen to see an end ebola module up as fast as possible. Unlike the negropronte $100 laptop model that made mit the world's number 1 media lab for open tech students, yazmi includes direct downloading from satellite at no additional cost per tablet bought. The question preoccupying me is what other existing content form eg the world of knowhow of usaid does could yazmi to demonstrate.

Regarding food security and sustainable livelihoods: I have always wanted to see value chain understanding shared optimally. I am wondering if the advances in open education routes that are potentially coming together in 2015 - eg I also know some of the world banks open elearning campus team that aims to link MOOC/coursera partners whose goal is to offered on-demand action learning not certificate-based models of sharing information and actionable jobs with millennials. The same team organises the world bank's emerging series of end poverty tedx TEDxWBG

I have for example twice flown to dhaka to personally brief sir fazle abed of BRAC on the coming possibilities of open education relating to those aspects of food value chains where his life's work has provided leading benchmarks

Jean please tell me if this may be of interest to you or colleagues so we can work out what level of meeting (involving yazmi or others) would be useful first

Advocates Call for Food Treaty at the ICN2

On November 17-21, 2014, member states gathered in Rome for the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2), bringing together experts on global health, under- and over-nutrition, food supply, and non-communicable and communicable disease, with the overall aim to address malnutrition in all its forms.

In conjunction with ICN2, over 300 of the world’s leading health campaigners, academics, consumer advocates, and civil society organizations rallied together to publicly endorse calls for a tobacco-style treaty to protect and promote healthy diets. The calls for a binding treaty on food were published in an open letter to the WHO Director General Dr. Margaret Chan and FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva, which was co-authored by representatives from YP-CDN, the World Obesity Federation, Consumers International, the UK Health Forum, and consumer groups in Fiji and Mexico. The letter urges greater action to protect and promote healthy diets using a similar mechanism to the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (FCTC) which has been successful in reducing tobacco use.

Unless we have the same understanding there is little chance you can brief meskela or any of the blessed value chain coop owners or samara of the above 3 opportunities which most rank among the most pivotal african sustainability criees of 2015

IN MORE DETAIL RELEVANT TO INVESTORS OR MILLENNIALS CROWD PROCESSES

1 what do agri farmers families want for their youth education - whether this is ethiopian coffee., dbanj ghanachocolate, probably 10 other coop-produce-diaspora that bono's networks of agriculture is 10 time most valuable end poverty investment, or toure's networks or meskela's networks could identify

2 what do jim kim soros paul farmer and sir fazle abed mean that ebola has demonstarted by there is no point in any african development economic in very poorest countries until community health training is linked through every village- note this may also be the greatest jobs for farmers daughters

3 more advanced sustainability curricula like sort that intel is talking about or involving transformation of energy or waste which again grassroots rural people need to lead their own jobs curricula and collaboration knowledge networking on

Its a bit like the nursery rhyme because of a nail the kingdom was lost but its happening in teal time- what yazmi doesnt at least have on demo before we go near any national leader is potentially fatal blow to sustainability of yazmi or to our relationship with national leaders and world's extremely few billionaires worth chasing as millennials investors

because you dont see as much of the connected detail as eg naila or sir fazle does , you are not being proactive enough diary time wise with meskela or samara let alone helping samara out of whatever is her current diary's process; there is no point any of them seeing eg sir fazle abed or national leadership team at kenya or rwanda or george soros secretariat or millennials at world bank about how yazmi is the biggest missing piece because they dont see the whole picture

I have already been told by sir fazle abed's team that they cant understand why nobody is discussing partbnership brainstorming of what could make most of brac and yazmi

If I am wrong about this missing understanding gap I would be delighted but also we would be in different diary positions and at least samara would be communicating differently with naila already

any errors in above are mine alone

naila what do you think about this?

chris

debate on what do world greatest village health servants want from an elearning satellite